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Disabled veterans in Georgia and Maryland can get a property tax break on the home they live in, and Georgia’s exemption has to be filed by April 1. Texas, Illinois and Wisconsin run their own versions, with Texas applications due April 30. Each state sets its own amount and its own proof, and all five […] The post Disabled veterans in Texas, Illinois, Georgia, Maryland and Wisconsin can cut property taxes, and Georgia’s exemption must be filed by April 1 and Texas’s by April 30 appeared first on The Money Overview .
DOOR COUNTY (NBC 26) — Home heating costs across the nation are expected to rise by more than 7% this winter, which may affect neighbors in Door County and other parts of Northeast Wisconsin. The increase was reported by the National Energy Assistance Directors Association (NEADA), a Washington-based non-profit...
DRIFTLESS - On Sunday, October 25, hundreds of citizens took time out of a beautiful late-October day to hear about the potential environmental threats of the proposed MariBell and BECI electric transmission lines. The lines, if built, would run through the sensitive Driftless Region, home to globally rare, pre-glacial natural communities, underlain by a fragile karst geology.
Consumer advocates and environmental groups are calling on the incoming Wisconsin state Legislature to take action to lower household energy bills and ensure data centers pay their fair share. At a press conference at the state Capitol Thursday, advocates said changes to state energy policy could save the average Wisconsin...
MINNEAPOLIS — Dairyland Power Cooperative and Xcel Energy have filed a formal route permit application with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for a proposed high voltage transmission project that would cross the Mississippi River into western Wisconsin. The proposed Gopher to Badger Link Project involves constructing a new 765...
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources was recently notified by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection that a farm-raised deer on a deer farm in Taylor County tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD). This positive result is within 10 miles of the border of both Chippewa...
Wisconsin’s biohealth industry is continuing to develop as a powerful engine of innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic development. This much was clear from BioForward’s 11th Annual Startup Showcase at the Wisconsin Biohealth Summit on Oct. 21, 2026, at Milwaukee’s Baird Center. Leaders from six Wisconsin-based companies at various...
5 Lakes Energy study estimates savings could top $4,000 per household by 2040 with investments in data center guardrails, clean energy, efficiency, and electrification. The average Wisconsin household could save $380 on its electric bill by 2028 if state lawmakers and regulators take action now to rein in utility profits and ensure large energy users pay their fair share, according to a new independent analysis from 5 Lakes Energy. The analysis identifies concrete actions policymakers can take to deliver meaningful relief for residents, including requiring data centers to cover the electricity costs they impose on the grid plus a surcharge and reducing the profits monopoly utilities are allowed to earn. Together, these changes could lower electricity bills for families and small businesses while helping build a more affordable, reliable energy system for the future.
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - Midcontinent Grid Solutions is extending the public engagement schedule for the BECI Project ahead of the application is filed with state regulators. The new schedule includes open houses in the first quarter of 2027 and will file for its Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) no sooner than May 1.
Reliant Transportation Group, formerly known as Minnesota Coaches, plans to acquire Safe-Way Bus and Safe-Way Wisconsin, the company announced on Nov. 10. Reliant is one of the 20 largest private contractors in the U.S. Safe-Way is a family-owned student transportation and charter service operation in the Twin Cities in Minnesota, and the three public school districts in Wisconsin.
A switchyard outside Milwaukee still hums with equipment tied to power plants that stopped running years ago. Nobody draws electricity from them anymore. Yet the bill for building them never actually closed. Every month, a line on local electric statements quietly covers that unfinished debt. Regulators just decided how much...
WISCONSIN – The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) is encouraging business leaders and sales executives to attend an upcoming business development event. Registration is now open for the Governor’s MARKETPLACE Conference, slated to be held at the Baird Center in Milwaukee on Wednesday, Dec. 9 and Thursday, Dec. 10.
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There’s something special about wide-open fields and the peace of Wisconsin’s beautiful countryside. Isn’t it ironic that some state officials push so hard for “green” energy while supporting projects that replace the productive farmland that makes Wisconsin special? When will it stop?. Twenty-three years ago,...
MADISON, Wis. (WKBT) — The company behind a proposed 190-mile high-voltage transmission line across southern Wisconsin announced Thursday it will delay a key regulatory filing and push back its public engagement schedule into 2027.
CEO of Forge Prosthetics Joseph LaBrash is a veteran himself, and his business uses 3D printed sockets with old school craftsmanship.
The Wisconsin Pork Association is getting a new leader. Executive Vice President Keri Retallick will retire at the end of the year after 41 years in the pork industry, handing the reins to current Program and Marketing Director Morgan Worek. Retallick To Retire. Retallick says the Pork-A-Palooza celebration at January’s...
Enbridge crews have been removing contaminated soil at the site of a gas leak on the company’s Line 5 oil and gas pipeline in northern Wisconsin. The Aug. 25 leak occurred as the company has been building a new 41-mile segment of Line 5 around the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa’s reservation in Ashland and Iron counties.
